I’ve just recovered from an inflammation which forced me to spend a week in bed and only go out for food essentials, despite the early October t-shirt weather which I really wanted to be in. I was on antibiotics which felt like a big deal as it’s only the second time...
Oftentimes I deal with a situation which appears to be bad by entitling it as: A Blessing in Disguise. As I’ve always been a chaser of blessings, the moment trouble appears I’m checking out its benefits. So these days I’m stoically convincing myself that I’ve been...
On any morning of the week a house moth on my wall will spy me sitting at my laptop, working in pyjamas. My deceased uncle Easy would’ve approved as whenever as a child I visited him on certain afternoons, he would always be in his pinstriped pyjamas; and I...
In our winter 2021 edition of In The Square, I featured an interview with the charismatic musician Mo Foster who lived most of his life in Belsize Village. On 3 July this year Mo passed. I went to visit him in hospital a week before he died and all he wanted to talk...
It’s almost two years since I first had the idea for a local print magazine for Belsize Park. I was on one of those going-nowhere lockdown walks when I chanced upon a TV celebrity comedian and after a short exchange to congratulate him on being so funny, I walked on,...
Recently I spent an entire day and evening in my pyjamas on my bed and couch, and I wasn’t unwell. I listened to the radio, watched two films, read some, ate, stared out the window – that’s all. It was a Saturday so I told myself that I was doing my take on the...
